Nintendo Reportedly Doubling Switch Production For The Coming Year

High expectations.

Stefan L, 11 months ago, 5 comments.

The Nintendo Switch has got off to a record breaking start for Nintendo, in a way that seems to have almost caught the Japanese manufacturer by surprise. Certainly, it’s sold out in a lot of places, and the company are riding high on the positivity and critical acclaim surrounding The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Now the Wall Street Journal is reporting from sources within the supply chain that Nintendo are doubling their supply of consoles for the next financial year from 8 million consoles to 16 million consoles.

It’s an interesting report, certainly, and would suggest a newfound optimism in the company, but as Engadget points out, the Wii U also got off to a decent start, selling 3 million consoles in its first six weeks before stalling quite noticeably. Here’s hoping that Nintendo are reading their tea leaves correctly.

Glad to hear it. I personally know 5 people who want to get a Switch after seeing mine and they can’t find one anywhere.
Can see the Switch being a big success if Nintendo handle it correctly. They won’t, obviously (its Nintendo) but I’ll keep my fingers crossed… ;)

I hope it works out for them this time, BotW gave them a good head start and most of their IPs are generally well received so they just have to measure those out over the next few months to keep interest ticking along nicely.

It’s all well and good double production but erm…. the Switch has one of the worst launch line ups I’ve seen. There’s Zelda, that Mario game(both are standard expectations), the switch minigame collection and no, Shaving is not a fecking game! Feck you! Feck that advert! Feck the….

Ahem, yeah, I hate that they tried to make shaving a game. I hate shaving my thick beard. How is that meant to be fun?

But as i was saying,the line up is crap. If they can’t get more games out between now and the next six months, they risk a Wii U occuring.

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